#5

A few months ago I watched Star Trek: The Movie for the first time in several years. Upon seeing the scene where the science officer dies during the transporter malfunction, I find myself asking "If that can potentially happen, even ONCE, why would anyone ever WANT to be teleported?" Sure, it has the same logic as flying- statsitically it's safer than driving. But who really wants to die in a cloud of molecules? With teleportation technology becoming a reality, I find myself asking a lot of questions about it. Could a living thing really be teleported? Could someone's MIND be teleported with them? And hell, who doesn't remember what happened in The Fly?

#4

I don't really know if this is a direction cigarettes could go or not, it just seemed like an amusing idea- smoking nothing but nicotine without the carcinogens.

The first two main characters of the strip have met, and there will be more to come shortly.

Comico Tres

Man, I love drawing shots like this. I’ve always been something of a science fiction buff- I’m really not a dire heard fan of any particular series, I just love the concept of space travel and all it entails. In case anyone was wondering, yes- man has created a space vessel able to travel to- say- Mars, in less than a day. And just to get it out there, no, in the comic faster than light travel has not yet been achieved by mankind. The being sitting in the background of panel two isn’t an alien per se- he’s actually a human being. We’ll be dealing with that matter later on in the series, so I don’t want to spoil it just yet.

A familiar theme in this strip is certainly going to be "The more things change, the more they stay the same."

Comic #2

In Ares-1, the majority of buildings are long columns, most of the same length. The lighting in the station at this point is dim, given the early hour.

Given the detail I've given her, you've probably guessed Alessia is a main character ;)

The alarm clock gag was one I wasn't sure about. At first I thought it was too complicated or was spelling the concept out too much. But then I said "screw it" and ran with it anyway. I don't think there's a person alive who actually LIKES alarm clocks, yet everyone has one, and it's so desireable to have the best one on the market, that plays CDs and has 3 built in alarms and a back up battery- yet we all hate waking up in the morning. Go figure.

The First Comic

Well, here we are, the first comic of a new series. I can't promise much, aside from what I feel will be both an exciting and humorous story.

In this strip, I've laid the ground for what the setting of the strip will be- Mars, more specifically, Ares-1. A station like this may very well be possible to construct today, but probably not on the same scale. That's assuming we ever actually send human beings to Mars.

In the last panel is a theme that's going to be very familiar in this strip- silly crap I figure we'll have in the future. ;) Such as, talking vending machines with television screens on them. Why do I think we'll have that? Well, it's silly, vapid, and would probably sell a lot of candy, so there ya go.

The Blog Begins

Surviving Mars is a webcomic that will debut on June 20th. I'll be using this blog for announcements or just general ranting on my part. Laters.